Strata has the year end offer you've been waiting for. Buy any Strata product from the Strata.com online store and get half off of a second product of the same or lesser value.

Perfect for New Customers

Buy Design 3D and get Foto 3D at half price. Or buy one Design 3D and get a second at half price. Or buy Live 3D and... well, you get the picture. New customers use coupon code New09 on checkout.*

Bonus for Existing Strata Customers

Any product purchase made on the Strata.com online store during 2009 qualifies for the first purchase. That's right - if you've purchased any product from the Strata store in 2009 you can save 50% on a new purchase during the month of December. Use coupon code Loyal09 on checkout.*

Design 3D CX 6 owners - Complete your Strata 3D CX Suite at half price. Get Foto 3D CX, Enfold 3D CX and Live 3D CX - over $2,000 combined value. If you purchased the Suite you could get these products for only $1,395 - but with this offer we cut that in half - only $695 in total.

This is an excellent value, a perfect holiday gift idea - or just a great way to use up your year-end budget.

The new December issue of Photoshop User Magazine is out and contains a stellar review of Strata Design 3D CX 6. Here's just a sampling:

The gang over at Strata has been listening to designers, illustrators, and interactive media geeks like me and has given us what we've been asking for with Strata Design 3D CX 6. With this latest version, I think they're raising the bar.

One of the key new features is the enhanced user interface. We all want our programs to have a familiar look and feel, so they made it more "Adobe-like".

Strata Design 3D CX 6 is a great product for anyone who's looking for a 3D app that will enhance their productivity, creativity, and integrate with the Adobe products to help create projects.

Strata is proud to be a primary sponsor of The Dieline Awards, a worldwide design competition recognizing the world's best package design. TheDieline.com is the world's leading package design website and is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts.

30 winners across 10 different categories will be awarded a prestigious Dieline Award, and one Best of Show winner will be chosen as the grand winner. The official awards ceremony will be held at the FUSE Conference on April 14th, 2010, at Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago. The top 11 winners will receive a prize package worth over $4500.

Strata and founders Ken and Gary Bringhurst are marking their 20 year milestone by giving away over $20,000 in software to twenty deserving design students with Strata's "20/20" program.

In a challenging job market Strata is looking to help students who are about to graduate or who have recently graduated. "We remember how difficult it was to get started right out of school", said Gary Bringhurst, Strata co-founder. "It seems fitting to celebrate by helping others get off the ground."

Applicants will need to explain what challenges they are facing, their design discipline focus, where they went to school and when they graduated or when they'll be graduating. Winners will be judged based on these answers and portfolio samples.

This program will be ending soon, so be sure to apply before you miss your chance.